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_________________________________________________________________________ The Gold Coast is also referred to as the North Coast area.
Waterfront canal living is a feature of the Gold Coast, and most canal frontage homes have pontoons. The Gold Coast Seaway, between The Spit and South Stradbroke Island, allows vessels direct access to the Pacific Ocean from The Broadwater and many of the city's canal estates. Breakwaters on either side of the Seaway prevent longshore drift and the bar from silting up. A sand pumping operation on the Spit pipes sand under the Seaway to continue this natural process.
Residential canals were first built on the Gold Coast in 1950s and
construction continues. Most canals are extensions to the Nerang River,
but there are more to the south along Tallebudgera Creek and Currumbin Creek and to the north along the Gold Coast Broadwater, South Stradbroke Island, Coomera River
and southern Moreton Bay. Early canals included Florida Gardens, Isle
of Capri which were under construction at the time of the 1954 flood.
Recently constructed canals include Harbour Quays and Riverlinks
completed in 2007. There is over 890 km of constructed residential
waterfront land within the city that is home to over 80,000 residents.
[edit] Beaches
Entrance to Surfers Paradise beach
Surfers Paradise skyline
The city consists of 57 kilometres of coastline with some of the most popular surf breaks in Australia and the world including, South Stradbroke Island, The Spit, Main Beach, Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach, Mermaid Beach, Nobby Beach, Miami, Burleigh Beach, Burleigh Heads, Tallebudgera Beach, Palm Beach, Currumbin Beach, Tugun, Bilinga, Kirra, Coolangatta, Greenmount, Rainbow Bay, Snapper Rocks and Froggies Beach. Duranbah beach is one of the world's best known surfing beaches and is often thought of as being part of Gold Coast City, but is actually just across the New South Wales state border in Tweed Shire.
The official name for the beach is Flagstaff Beach. Duranbah is a small
town located about 12 kilometres southwest of the beach, but the name
Duranbah Beach has become its accepted (if not official) identity.
There are also beaches along many of the Gold Coast's 860 km of navigable tidal waterways. Popular inland beaches include Southport, Budds Beach, Marine Stadium, Currumbin Alley,
Tallebudgera Estuary, Jacobs Well, Jabiru Island, Paradise Point,
Harley Park Labrador, Santa Barbara, Boykambil and Evandale Lake.
The Sunshine Coast (population 312,908 with up to an additional 50,000 in visitors and seasonal workers) is a coastal region located in South East Queensland, north of the Queensland capital of Brisbane. The Sunshine Coast has recently been united into a single Local Government Area, the Sunshine Coast Regional Council.
The Sunshine Coast is bordered by the Pacific Ocean in the east, and extends to the local government boundaries beyond the Blackall Range to the west. Occasionally, the towns of Gympie, which is 30 minutes' drive north of Noosa Heads, and Caboolture, 30 mins drive south of Caloundra, have been included in a broader definition of the Sunshine Coast region.